The Impact of Smartphone Applications on Enhancing Students' English Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing

Abstract

The study investigates how the smartphone applications (apps) are important in enhancing students' productive English skills, particularly in speaking and writing. It emphasizes how interactive features in these apps draw users in and enable practice the English language learning in real-world situations. The research aims to identify effective apps, analyze their features and assess their impact on language outcomes. The researchers conducted a quantitative research method in this study. The questionnaire was distributed online to 21 participants: female students at the college of Education in Al- Asmarya Islamic University of the concerned study. It was carefully designed to help the participants to share their thoughts and experiences about smartphone applications specifically in learning English. The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS to investigate the connection between apps usage and improvements in language competency by learners. The findings were the majority of students use smartphone apps for the academic purposes such as learning languages. Moreover, the most commonly used language learning apps by students were (Duolingo, Babbel) and Social Media Platforms.